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Dog Behavior
Oct. 15th, 2010 06:45 amLast night, the dog and I were in the living room, and I heard some noise and saw some light beyond the end of the driveway. I jokingly chided the dog for letting me be the guard, and we walked out to fenceline. It was a telephone company truck and soon a car stopped also, and two guys started screwing around with red and white headlamps on the other side of the road.
I know it sounds weird, but this episode suddenly turned on the guarding response for the dog. He was running back and forth along the perimeter facing the road, and barking a really deep and intimidating bark that I've never heard before. Even when he stopped running, he laid in the grass between the house and the men, barking a warning them that he was watching.
He kept it up past the time they were gone, and I thought he was barking at nothing, until I saw a bunch of rabbits out there. He went out and barked a few times this morning as well.
This is a sudden change, and it may simply mean that he's feeling more comfortable here, and he's taken ownership, but it's so strange that it started when I went out and guarded. It's like he picked up his cue from me, and now he has assumed a guarding role.
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He was out barking at the rabbits again tonight. I went out and looked, and I never realized there were so many bunny rabbits out there at night. It's almost like a moonlight dance.
I know it sounds weird, but this episode suddenly turned on the guarding response for the dog. He was running back and forth along the perimeter facing the road, and barking a really deep and intimidating bark that I've never heard before. Even when he stopped running, he laid in the grass between the house and the men, barking a warning them that he was watching.
He kept it up past the time they were gone, and I thought he was barking at nothing, until I saw a bunch of rabbits out there. He went out and barked a few times this morning as well.
This is a sudden change, and it may simply mean that he's feeling more comfortable here, and he's taken ownership, but it's so strange that it started when I went out and guarded. It's like he picked up his cue from me, and now he has assumed a guarding role.
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He was out barking at the rabbits again tonight. I went out and looked, and I never realized there were so many bunny rabbits out there at night. It's almost like a moonlight dance.
